Part of me hopes that the big 2016 John Lewis advert is just the guy from the Safestyle double glazing ads standing in a branch of John Lewis shouting "BUY YOUR MUM A KETTLE" over and over again.
A flood of nerves welled up inside him like a kettle over-boiling.
The Caribbean takeaway Take Two Grill (right at the front) is one of the market's original businesses and one of the few jerk-chicken places in Brixton to cook over coals in a kettle drum rather than in the oven.
She sets a clay crock on a charcoal brazier, adds two or three small bricks of momengoshi ("cotton" tofu well drained of moisture and firm in consistency), pours some hot water over them from a kettle, and, after they have simmered for a few minutes (they are not supposed to steep, as they do in the classic hot pot, yudofu), she ladles them into a bowl.
Alternatively, use steam to put the shape back into a misshapen straw hat - even steam from a kettle held over the hat can help to reshape it.
Muddled and often infuriating, "Human Smoke" sounds its single, solemn note incessantly, like a mallet striking a kettle drum over and over.
Or fuss over the shape of a kettle spout?
So far, she had knocked over a chair and a kettle.
Unfortunately, even at a low temperature, after an hour on freezing river, it'll feel like someone's pouring a kettle over them.
